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Young blood
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An imaginative scheme may give operatorsa route to find the transport managers or engi neers of the future. Patric Cunnane reports.
It may he one of the best-kept secrets in the training world: a scheme called Year in Industry has 500 registered companies on its books. with up to 300 offering placements to students each year. Its aim is to match students in the year between leaving school and starting university with a placement doing real work, in a real industrial environment. The self-financing scheme began in 1987 and was designed to stop the drift of bright engineering. science and technical students going into careers in the City after leaving university, according to the scheme's national director, Roy Bromley. In this respect, it has been successful — three-quarters of its students return to industry after university.
Transport-related companies using the scheme include Land Rover, Rolls Bentley, beer supplier Interbrew, BNYL and BMW. Lucy Nickson, a student placed at BNFL, spent her year researching and developing a system for washing fuel transport flasks to increase efficiency and safety.
Entry point to learning
For a young person interested in, say, logistics management the scheme can offer a no-strings attached entry point to learning about the transport industry. In return, the participating company meets an applicant who has been carefully vetted for motivation and received a management training course.
Students wanting to participate must register with their local Year in Industry centre. An interview follows and. if they are successful, their details are added to the database sent to regis tered companies. The students may be invited to a recruitment fair or an interview with an interested company. If successful, their new job will begin in autumn and finish in summer, before the academic year commences, The Year in Industry website includes a full list of participating companies by industry sector and case studies of placements with input from students and employers. Transport companies struggling to tempt the next generation of high flyers away from other industry sectors may find that seed money invested in this scheme will be rewarded handsomely by securing a skills base for the future. It is, say the scheme's organisers, a significant help in developing a long-term recruitment strategy. With demographics showing there will not be enough applicants to fill industry vacancies within 10 to 15 years, operators should waste little time in planning a recruitment strategy that will meet the needs of the next generation of their business. • CONTACTS: Year in Industry: wvAv.yini.org.uk I year in Industry area offices: Northern: 0161 278 2497 Midlands: 0121 414 8116 Southern: 023 8059 2430 Scotland: 0141 221 3181 Wales: 01248 382709